Absolute Cinema: La haine

CREATE and UWSP are teaming up for a monthly Revival House film series, featuring classic films from the Criterion Collection and beyond. Join us for a $5 Movie Night in the DUC Theater, enjoy free popcorn, and feel free to grab other drinks and snacks from the Brewhouse down the hall!

This month we're screening La haine, an unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)—Jewish, African, and Arab, respectively—give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of 1990s French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis.

You may also like the following events from CREATE Portage County:

• This June, 15th June, 07:00 pm, Absolute Cinema: Paris is Burning in Stevens Point

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